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Le 21/08/2012 13:47, Invisible a écrit :
> I don't have any way of heating the acid. Also, we have now run out of
> acid.
>
>> Or if you have some liquid nitrogen and a hammer... it can be fun too.
>
> We have a 2 tonne liquid nitrogen tank. However, the nitrogen can only
> be withdrawn in gaseous form.
"Another one bit the dust", by Queen... time to check if a fall from any
height on a concrete surface would have exploded the drive. We want photo.
"It's a hard life" : after having been the cherished drive on which
everyone relied, it is now persecuted.
"Hammer to fall": at least, do you have some hammer ?
If all else fail, you might get some expanding-foam (in can, urethane)
injected inside the drive: this would preclude any easy restoration.
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On 21/08/2012 01:23 PM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> "Another one bit the dust", by Queen...
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
> time to check if a fall from any
> height on a concrete surface would have exploded the drive. We want photo.
A solid lump of steel? Yeah, as if any gravitational impact will touch it.
> "It's a hard life" : after having been the cherished drive on which
> everyone relied, it is now persecuted.
Yeah. It's kind of sad, really.
> "Hammer to fall": at least, do you have some hammer ?
http://tinyurl.com/bnvgfmj
> If all else fail, you might get some expanding-foam (in can, urethane)
> injected inside the drive: this would preclude any easy restoration.
Yeah, I still think unscrewing the lid and shattering the platters is
the simplest.
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:32:58 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> On 21/08/2012 01:23 PM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>> "Another one bit the dust", by Queen...
>
> Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
>
Surely you mean "Another one BYTES the dust"?
Great story though!
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Dave Downing, Somerset U.K.
No bytes were harmed in the making of this message.
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On 8/17/2012 9:25 AM, Invisible wrote:
> After a few minutes it eventually stopped fizzing. There's still some
> kind of brown vapour issuing from it though. And the black paint is
> slowly falling off, revealing the dully silver metal beneath.
Nitrogen Dioxide. Nasty stuff. Thank goodness for a fume hood :)
Anything else dissolve?
> It will be interesting to see if there's anything left by Monday. My
> college thinks it will have been reduced to sludge by then. I suspect
> it'll still be in once piece, just slightly corroded around the outside.
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~Mike
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On 8/21/2012 6:30 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> I told you: boiling hydrochloric acid. No fancy mix, just plain Hcl,
> enough HCl.
Hot Conc Sodium Hydroxide.
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~Mike
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